Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] drive-mirror: limit niov to MAX_IOV

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

Ping, all good?

Jeff Cody, I think this is yours?

On 06/22/2016 03:51 PM, John Snow wrote:
> e5b43573 caused a regression in the preparation of our IO vectors, such
> that if a small granularity but a large buffer size is chosen, we may
> accidentally exceed MAX_IOV and the request will fail.
> 
> This has been fixed before in cae98cb8, and now we'll fix it again.
> To keep it fixed, we'll add an iotest this time.
> 
> [Thanks to Max for finding the root cause.]
> 
> John Snow (3):
>   mirror: clarify mirror_do_read return code
>   mirror: limit niov to IOV_MAX elements, again
>   iotests: add small-granularity mirror test
> 
>  block/mirror.c             | 10 ++++++++--
>  tests/qemu-iotests/041     | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/qemu-iotests/041.out |  4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>